Indeed. The submission's title should then be changed perhaps to "Bato - the Ruby programming language in Filipino/Tagalog," or perhaps "Bato - Ruby made Filipino/Tagalog."
Well yes it is actually, by collecting more data, you are doing a better job marginalizing the distribution of government corruption and waste across the planet. And that can make a seemingly bad thing turn out to actually be relatively good and vice versa.
Or, to quote some famous dead dude:
"The World Is a Book and Those Who Do Not Travel Read Only One Page" - St Augustine
Or, to quote Anthony Bourdain himself:
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
But I'm not talking about relative goodness or badness.
If I say "boy I'm tired today, I only slept 4 hours" and you say "you're tired? I didn't sleep at all!", your being more tired doesn't make me any less tired.
In the same regard, other governments doing a much worse job than the US government doesn't mean that the US government is doing the best job that it can.
Sure, that's possibly true. But if the ensemble of governments planetwide are mostly doing worse than the US(1), then you need to consider it might not be humanly possible to do much better even if it's obvious how to do better theoretically.
But, by all means, go get some billionaire to buy you an island or build one for you to test out your ideal black spherical cow ideas for government. The US itself was once a crazy experiment in cutting edge governing theory itself.
FWIW, we built a team of Elixir developers in the spring of 2014 in Austin Texas. Austin is not the bay area, it's maybe a Tier 3 startup town. And still we were able to build a great team over the course of a few months.
At the time, Elixir had not hit 1.0 and while there's a lot of overlap between elixir and erlang this is a good comparison because Elixir is a lot less common than erlang.
Here's the thing-- by having that filter of using this language-- a good language-- we self selected for good engineers because the good engineers were either already using it or were very interested in it. I for one, for instance, came to that job, relocating across the country just because I wanted to work in that language.
I learned Erlang on the job when I started at an Erlang shop, in between taking care of existing php stuff. It's not super hard: the syntax is weird, but at least whitespace isn't significant.
There seems to be a pervasive sentiment that developers can't learn erlang.
There is a learning curve, and you're going to want to seed your staff with expertise (it sounds like bet365 did this), but there's no reason that a competent developer can't learn this or any other functional language.
And given the increasing usage of Erlang, it's a good skill to pick up - so if you have the opportunity to learn it as part of a job you already have, so much the better.
gmail completely upset the mail game, offering a product that was so outrageous that most took it as an April fools joke.
This...looks like a registrar + nameservers, and doesn't seem to really differentiate itself in any compelling way at all. Name serving + registration anywhere else, or at two separate places, isn't that different in price from the price they show in their screenshot.
Invite only for something like this is incredibly lame. I mean, whoever thought they'd pull that tactic again needs to seriously be corralled. It is amateur hour.
'If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:' was mentioned twice. Hurray copy and paste?
Everything is just alias-ed:
e.g. https://github.com/jjuliano/bato/blob/master/lib/bato/core_e...